My account last year got Vero'd for selling knockoffs.
The first time it got hit it just said for violating ebay's "intellectual properties" policy.
Well I was new to selling and saw so many listings for what I was selling that looked nearly identical so I kept an eye on them to see which ones brought the highest prices and didn't get removed. When it came time to list my item, I took the pics and then cut and pasted (now I know that was wrong, but at the time it sure seemed like that was what everyone was doing to list this item) the text from another listing that had appeared several times. Just a few hours before the end of the auction the listing was removed.
The problem at the time was that ebay was so vague (for security reasons...LOL) in telling me why it was removed that I didn't know how I had offended and what to change for the next time I listed. Another one (removal) came along and then I had to do the "tutorial"
I let things cool off for a while, listed the same item (with a carefully thought out description) and listed the item again on a Saturday night. By the time I got home that night, the item was off and so was that account forever..3 strikes and I was out.
Since the last strike came late at night on a weekend I am almost certain that in both cases I was "reported" by another seller (competitor). He only sold the item that I was selling (about 30 at that point) he described it as "authentic" when it was clearly a ⊗⊗⊗⊗...even had a feedback saying that he sold a ⊗⊗⊗⊗.
He is still an active user, but hasn't done a transaction (at least through that acount) in a while.
My question is how is it that the other seller clearly skated through the whole time (30 or more to be exact) and I got clobbered?
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